working weekends only

barbyann · Apr 11, 2006

I have worked the Baylor option for 5 years. I work in a city hospital. I work overnights 7P-7A. In my facility that means Friday overnight and Saturday overnight. I work 24 hours and get paid for 30 hours (note the extra 6 hours is paid as bonus pay, with no differentials). For my 24 hours worked I get evening, night, weekend differential. I get health benefits as would a full-timer. I get college tutition reimbursment at 40%. I accrue PTO based on the 30 hours. I have been quite happy with this program. There are now many of us that work weekends only and we have formed a strong team. Our co-workers are thrilled because they now rarely work a weekend shift. I have yet to find a downside to this set-up.

javanurse2000, BSN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

Wowee-wow --- sign me up! I work weekends 7p-7a - 24 hours total. No extra time, no benefits, no healthcare insurance, no PTO time...but I DO have to be on call twice a month:uhoh3: . I may need to start looking in the classifieds:idea:

cardiacRN2006, ADN, RN · Apr 11, 2006

I worked Baylor as a tech! What an awesome thing-especially as I was in Nursing School!!!

I worked 7a-7p, got paid for 36, accrued full time PTO, earned full time bennies and was considered a .9 FTE. I also got 6 days off a year. In addition to that I got 100% tuition reimbursement. I only worked holidays that fell on weekends (which sucked last year BTW but you gotta do what you gotta do!).

The people who work Baylor become very close, and you have amazing retention! I had to sign a contract every year, and most of us kept our noses very clean as we didn't want to lose this special program. Plus, since I made time and a half for every hour worked, I couldn't leave, because I would take a huge pay cut!

TiffyRN, BSN, PhD · Apr 12, 2006

I worked a weekend program (it wasn't called Baylor even though it was at a Baylor system hospital). We were not payed for 32 or 36 hours. What they did instead was pay us a differential that essentially made it equivalent to 32-36 hours. At that time the RN weekend program diff was $9/hr but may have changed (it's been a few years). I believe other departments in the hospital administered the weekend program differently according to a conversation I had with an ER nurse going through orientation with me (who would also be on weekend advantage program). We didn't have to sign a contract and we could earn PTO so we could take a shift off when we had PTO accumulated.

One thing about those positions was the hospital used them as a recruiting tool rarely giving the positions to in-house staff.

It was THE SWEETEST schedule I ever worked in my life and also had the most awsome same team of nurses I worked with every time. It was however just an average med/surg/tele and I wanted to change specialties.